“…There are seven polyols which are defined as nutritive sweeteners according to the European Union legislation, i.e., sorbitol, mannitol, isomalt, maltitol, lactitol, xylitol and erythritol [28]. Recently, researchers have focused on the use of erythritol [22,[29][30][31][32], xylitol [21,22,24,31,32] and maltitol [21,22,24,31,32] as osmotic agents, whereas there are few studies concerning the application of sorbitol [33,34], mannitol [35], isomalt [32] and lactitol in the OD process. Sorbitol and mannitol are six-carbon polyols that have the same molecular weight of about 182 and differ only in the position of the hydroxyl group on carbon 2 in the molecule.…”